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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Homo It's Not Exactly "Brand New," But...

Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:01 PM

...funny!

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That was highly informative. Literally, every single sentence he spoke was news to me. My pop culture IQ went up by 400%.

I'm old. And don't get out much.

Posted by elenchos on July 13, 2010 at 4:13 PM

How is it that I haven't heard the phrase "no homo" before watching that?

Posted by CTlady on July 13, 2010 at 4:25 PM

@1

Me too. The closest I get to pop culture is Slog. Looks like I'm not missing out on much.

Posted by Confluence on July 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM

Dan, are you watching/posting this on the plane? Your seatmates must be having fun.

Posted by emma's bee on July 13, 2010 at 4:37 PM

Well I do love a big fat co@k- no homo...

Posted by You Look Like I Need A Drink! on July 13, 2010 at 4:49 PM

I was feeling sorry for you since you seem to be so busy and on the road so much...now I'm thinking you're sitting in first class pounding the vodka redbulls and surfing...jealous instead of sorry, now.

Posted by Canuck on July 13, 2010 at 4:50 PM

Another completely awesome explanation of "no homo" by Jay Smooth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnlPP7jm…

Posted by samantha_beth on July 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM

and the link got cut off...

youtube.com/watch?v=YJnlPP7jm5s

Posted by samantha_beth on July 13, 2010 at 4:58 PM

I AM DEEPLY, INTENSELY, FUNDAMENTALLY OFFENDED BY THAT!!!!!!!!!

Posted by Chris in Vancouver WA on July 13, 2010 at 5:30 PM

Do they have a straight version? Like no hetro, or something? Like, 'wow it was big and long and juicy... no hetro.' Because I'm looking for something to replace my standard 'that's what she said'...

Posted by Faer on July 13, 2010 at 5:42 PM

Does anyone else but me remember the expression "no homo" from one of the SNL Wayne's World sketches? I can't find it on youtube anywhere, but I could swear that's where it's from.

Posted by og on July 13, 2010 at 5:50 PM

Luckily LanguageLog keyed me in on this phrase last year.

Posted by Sili on July 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM

Man I need to show this to my students. They tuck in their shirt and say "No Homo".

Posted by Lesley on July 13, 2010 at 6:29 PM

It's not gay if the balls don't touch.

Posted by sirkowski

on July 13, 2010 at 6:35 PM

Bryan Safi is a personal favourite. Particularly now that Sarah Haskins is no longer on infomania.

Posted by Canadian Nurse on July 13, 2010 at 7:26 PM

I know i've seen that phrase all over the internet but I never knew what it meant until now. I'm off my trend game.

Posted by Annag on July 13, 2010 at 7:46 PM

@7, 8 he is choice. Thank you for linking determinedly.

Posted by gloomy gus on July 13, 2010 at 8:20 PM

Hey no homo but I'm with @2. Now I'm going to start saying it all the time! No homo, I mean, you know what I'm saying?

Posted by Regina on July 13, 2010 at 8:32 PM

I don't have time for all those extra syllables - can I just shorten it to "no 'mo"?

Posted by COMTE

on July 13, 2010 at 9:50 PM

I guess I can be counted amongst the elderly that weren't hip to this at all. But then again, I've just plain never watched the movie or listened to the songs that this catch phrase came from. I mean, "L'il Wayne" just SUCKS (and I can't even claim originality, or superiority on any level, for that statement).

Wouldn't it be cheesy-rich if the dude actually was a faggot?? Man...

Now I have a couple of new websites to get my yucks from and the source of the "That's what she said," thing that I've puzzled over for only the last week or so. Thanks, Dan?

Posted by Head-shaking Lesbian on July 13, 2010 at 10:42 PM

"Methinks he doth protest too much" = anyone who says it. I've always wondered about those guys, now I understand! Just a bunch of closeted Congressmen...

Posted by samanthaf63 on July 14, 2010 at 5:56 AM

We used to always say "No Hojo," because we don't stay at no Howard Johnsons!

Posted by gttim on July 14, 2010 at 7:23 AM

That Anna Nicole Smith had some big breasts- no hetero...

Posted by You Look Like I Need A Drink! on July 14, 2010 at 10:10 AM

Everyone knows that black people aren't gay, they're "men who have sex with men". Usually on the down-low, because they ain't want none of the faggot crap.

Posted by real scientist on July 15, 2010 at 7:12 AM

Dog: "Yeah, I like to lie on the couch as though I was a potato. no homo [sapiens]"

Posted by pazziomallala on July 15, 2010 at 4:22 PM

I think I will make comments like, Nice ass -- tres homo.

Posted by Randall on July 15, 2010 at 9:05 PM